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Lettere .Patent No.' 68,771, dated September 10, 1867.

vIMIROVEME1\I'1 IN WARDBOBEJFRUNKS.

T0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, CHARLES MEMMERT, of Georgetown, in the county of Washington, and Districtoi` Columbia, have invented new and useful Improvement in Wardrobe-Trunks; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full and correct description of the saine, suicient to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to fully understand and' use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which malepart of this specification, and in which- Figure 1, Plate is an insidebottom view of the lid of my improved Hunk;

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same, when'used as a wardrobe, andv Figure 3, Plate II, isga sectional side view of the same, when put together as a trunk.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severa-I lgures.

The nature of my invention consists in s o constructing a trunk` that it can be used, when desired, as a wardrobe in which to hang clothes, as hereinafter more fully described.

A, in the drawings, represents the' body of the trunk made in the usual way. To this body Ais hinged the lid B. The trunk is provided on its inner side-with aY metal rim,\C, which extends a little above the body of the trunk, and .forming a kind of bearingfor therlid; Into the body of the trunkare placedtwo pieces, D and E, each consisting of two'boards, d d and e e', joined to each other at right angles. i These pieces D and E arerplaced, 'when the trunk is lused as a wardrobe, in position as shown in iig. 2, their edges tting on the edges of the body of the trunk, and being secured to the rim G by means of screws, c, and clamps or cleats, a and b, the clamps one on each piece d and ef, and the lower clamps a, one on each piece al and e, seizing the rim C and holding the pieces D and E securely in place. The parts oluand e overlap each other and form the back oT the 'wardrobe and a continuation of the back-board of the trunk, being held together near the top by a hook and pin,'or any equivalent device. The parts cl and e form the sides of the wardrobeand continua-tions ofthe sides of the trunk, andere each provided with two inale'butts of hinges, the female butts being on the dooi'sfand g of the wardrobe. The door ,fis formed by the tray, which, when my improvement is used as a..

trunk, rests on the four cleats a, the pieces Dand E being so placedin the trunk that the cleats aV form an even bearing for the trayf, as shown in fig. 3. The trayf may be` divided into several compartments, which may be provided with separate covers-or doors, and has two sliding bolts, t t, which slide inside of the rim C and the4 inside of the lid B, to prevent the doorfto be opened. .The door g forms the cover of the inside of the lid B, the female hinge butts lying in recesses in the back-board of the lid, the door g being held in place by pivoted catches 7c. The door y may be provided with a. lock. The top of the wardrobe is formed by the lid B, which rests on the parts el d e e of the pieces D and'E, pins on the same fitting into holes Zin the edges ofthe lid B, and hooks on the parts d e catching over pins on the inner corresponding sides of the lid B, Vwhich can be slid od the male hinge butts fastened to the body of the trunk. m are hands of any suitable material, secured in the lid B so as to hold things placed in the saine in place. n n are cross-pieces provided with pins or hooks, y

on which-the clothes can be hung when the trunk is used as a wardrobe.

There are very few hotels or hoardinghouses which provide their rooms with wardrobes in which clothes can be hung, necessitating the occupants to either keepthemin their trunks, where they get mouldy and creased,

er hang them up against the-wall, exposed to all dampness and dust accumulating. To avoid these evils is the intention of my invention. The boardsl of which the pieces D and E are Vconstructed need be but very thin, and may be covered outside with the same material with which the trunk is covered, while any paper will do for the inside, and as the lid of the trunk forms the top of thewardrobe, and the doors are formed of parts used in every trunk, the only additional weight will be that of the pieces D and E, which may be made of very thin boards, and will neither add any great weight to the trunk, nor take up much space inthe same.

The wardrobe may be taken to pieces and converted into a truuk in a few moments. The lid B is first taken off the hooks on the pieces d. c being released. The doors f and g are then removed, the fatter being placed into the lid as described. The pieces D and E are next taken down, the screws c being reinoved, and are placed into the trunk body, as shown in iig. 3. The tray is then placed on the cleats a and the lid slipped on -the male hinge butts/on the trunk, when the latter is ready for packing'and removal.

ssym 2 Having thus described my invention, what I claim ns new therein, and desire to' secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. The pieces D and E, in combination with o. trunk, vapplied and operating substantially as described. 2. The wardrobe-trunk, consisting of the body A, lid B, rim C, pieces D E, trayf, and cover y, all applied and operating substantially as described.

3. In combination with the above, the metnlrim C, forming the bearing for the pieces D E, and doors f g substantially as described. l

The above specification of my improvementin Wardrobe trunks signed this twenty-nintlrdny of July, 186i'.

' i CHAS. MEMMERT.

Witnesses: v

ALEXR. YA. C. KLAUCKE, D. OURAND. v 

